Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), the infamous author of the New York Times op-ed calling for troops to break up Black Lives Matter protests, has lied about details of his military service, according to an investigation by Salon’sRoger Sollenberger. Cotton, who first ran for Congress in 2012, claimed during that campaign …
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Joe Biden declared his intention to move swiftly to sign a coronavirus relief bill into law, proposing a package that includes direct cash payments for Americans reeling with the fallout from the pandemic and accompanying economic crisis. Under the plan Biden outlined Thursday evening, most Americans will get a $1,400 …
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In the latest socially distanced episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Andre Damon, writer and editor for World Socialist Web Site. First on this week’s docket is a discussion of the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol. “For the first time in the …
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Correction: On March 11, 2021, the Washington Post issued a correction to a story that Rolling Stone quoted in this article. The Post’s original story, based on an anonymous source, misquoted the president during a December call with Georgia‘s top election investigator. The Post originally reported President Trump as instructing …
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Lindsey Boylan, a former advisor to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo who is running for Manhattan borough president, accused the governor of sexual harassment. In a Twitter thread posted Sunday, Boylan said that Cuomo “sexually harassed me for years” by commenting on her appearance. “I could never anticipate what to …
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It’s been a month since the presidential election and an overwhelming majority of Republicans in Congress continue to refuse to utter the words President-elect Joe Biden. According to a Washington Post survey of 249 Republicans in the House and Senate, nearly 90 percent “will simply not say who won the …
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John Fetterman, the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and one of the more intriguing figures in the Democratic Party, sounds exasperated. He’s exasperated that Democrats saw a blue wave in 2020 and underestimated the enduring appeal of Donald Trump. (“I call him the Bulworth president. [He] has created a brand loyalty …
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In a trainwreck of an interview, Trump Campaign National Press Secretary Hogan Gidley gave little insight into his candidate’s debate prep for Thursday night’s event but did share his thoughts on the well-known liberal bias of plexiglass. After refusing to answer simple and fundamental pre-debate questions from MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson …
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WASHINGTON — For years, Ed Butowsky has been one of the biggest proponents of the unproven theory that murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich leaked a trove of internal emails to WikiLeaks in 2016. Now, Butowsky is backing away from the Rich case by moving to dismiss multiple lawsuits …
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Joe Biden is slamming Trump for a deadly “dereliction of duty,” following the release of taped conversations between the president and the journalist Bob Woodward in which Trump revealed he knew, in early February, that the coronavirus was airborne and much deadlier than the flu, and confessed on March 19th …
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